Release Date:
10/16/2007
Chalk up another win for director Robert Rodriguez, 'cause he decimated Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof with this old-fashioned zombie gross-out flick. While Grindhouse as a whole was a failure (not because it bombed, but because it sucked as a whole), its better half turns an unintimidating Freddy Rodriguez into a badass fighting infected mutants who spew puss, blood, and some kind of puss-blood-jelly combo. Rose McGowan plays the one-legged go-go dancer, who proves you don't need two getaway sticks to be sexy as hell. It's funny, it's goofy, it's brutally violent; and Tarantino gets both his eyes poked out. What more could we ask for? How about R-Rod's standard special edition treatment with a cool audience-reaction track and a second disc filled with his usual informative and playful featurettes. We've heard every reviewer complain that splitting up the films is a cheap ploy and how they want both Grindhouse flicks packaged as one. Relax, film snobs, Rodriguez mentions during the commentary that a huge special edition is in the works. That's all well and good, but this edition is all you're gonna need. Plus, it has the faux trailer for Machete, which is supposedly being made. Any film with the tagline, "They fucked with the wrong Mexican," is all right by us.